An Arizona woman who beat her cousin to death with a claw hammer and then apparently tried to vacuum up the blood has been sentenced to decades behind bars.
Brianna Zerth, 33, admitted to attacking Peter McKenna Jr., 33, with a hammer on May 4, 2022. She pleaded guilty in April to one count of domestic violence manslaughter, and she was sentenced Friday to 21 years in prison, according to court records.
As Law&Crime previously reported, officers with the Peoria Police Department responded to an emergency call just after noon on May 5, 2022, about a dead man at a home in the area of 112th Avenue and West Diana Avenue. First responders found McKenna — who appeared to have suffered multiple blunt-force trauma injuries — and declared him dead…